Martin Sage
Relationship
No career outlasts the relationships it is built on.
The quietest work
The people who came to me about their companies almost always ended up talking about someone at home. That is not a detour. It is the same subject arriving by another road.
This is the part of the work nobody puts on a slide: how you stay in contact with the people who matter while you are busy becoming someone.
What it covers
Attention. Most of what passes for listening is waiting.
Repair. Every long relationship is a record of things broken and mended. The mending is the relationship.
Loss. It arrives for everyone. What you do with it is the only part you choose.
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